The plot synopsis - A woman who has lost her child (Catherine Walker) and an occultist (Steve Oram) retreat to an isolated house in Northern Wales to practice a magic ritual. The pair hope to contact the dead, or at least a guardian angel, but their attempts lead to something even more terrifying, especially when they keep secrets from each other.

This movie has few characters, just the woman and the man helping her. There are a few instances when the audience meets the woman's sister, and the caretaker or manager of the house she rents, but then we are left with the woman and the man she has hired to perform the rituals for her. At first she tells him that she is doing it for love, then she tells him she is doing it to talk to her son, then she tells him she is doing it for revenge, and in the end we find out the truth of what she is doing it for. The man she has hired to perform the ritual is strong in his beliefs and accuses her often of lying to him, which can affect the ritual and cause bad things to happen. In the end the audience finally learns the truth of what has happened, and the truth of what she has been searching for, which is not what was expected.

I'll be honest, I am a little tired of women in these types of movies being whiny and annoying when they don't get what they want. She constantly yells at him, asking him when things are going to happen, and getting angry when she isn't getting the things she wants when she wants them. As a character I didn't care for her and hoped that in the end a demon would eat her. I also didn't care for the occultist she hired because he didn't seem like he wanted to be there. After several mistakes, all made by her, things go in a direction they didn't expect.

I have to say I was not happy with the ending of the movie, and didn't find it satisfying in any way. Even with the twist in the end, I didn't think it was good enough to go with the rest of the movie. There was a build up of suspense, but there weren't a lot of scares throughout. Towards the ending it became a little more frightening, and sad, but the most frightening thing in this movie were the moments when the woman and her son talked to each other through a closed door. It was scary and chilling.

I don't know if I would recommend this movie, but since it is available on streaming, and it isn't a very long movie, take a chance on it and see what you think about it.

I wasn't sure what to expect from this movie, since I hadn't seen much about it and there didn't seem to be much chatter about it. I had heard a few things, but not really what the movie was about. The movie follows a medical examiner and his son as they called to identify the body of a beautiful corpse. She is possibly the victim in a homicide but with no external injuries it is hard to say what happened to her. She is found at the scene of a homicide, half buried in the ground, which is why she is included in the homicide scene.

Not knowing what this movie really was about before watching it I wondered what I was about to watch, and how an autopsy could be made interesting and horrifying, but this movie did set things up quite well. The father is teaching the son how to be a medical examiner, and the son is learning quite well and fast. The night the body of Jane Doe is brought in the son is about to leave for the movies with his girlfriend, but instead feels an obligation to stay with his father and help him out. He makes plan with the girlfriend for later and tells her to come get him when it is time to go.

The body of Jane Doe is a complete mystery. She comes in with signs of decomposition and later death, but her body is not in bad shape and there are things that suggest she has been buried in another place rather than where she was found. As they do their work and slowly run through the body they find things that suggest this young woman has been severely tortured, but they don't understand several of their findings. As the night moves on a storm outside grows and they find themselves trapped in the morgue as strange and dangerous things start to happen.

This movie doesn't rely on jump scares which is fantastic since those really are overused. It slowly builds up with the mystery and horror of the body and what is happening around them. I didn't appreciate one scene involving an animal, but that is only because there are often scenes in which animals are harmed (which to me seems very cliche). With each slice to the body something new happens, whether it is bodies moving on their own or mysterious songs playing over the radio, these things keep up all night as the father/son team try to figure out how to get out of the building.

As the night moves on and they attempt to figure out what is going on, things continue to get worse, ending up with a death and severe injuries. This movie didn't end how I expected it to, but it also wasn't quite a surprise either. It was an unusual subject matter and the plot was an interesting take on an old story. There are some parts that are remniscent of other movies, but overall it was a new idea and an interesting subject matter.

I also have to applaud Olwen Catherine Kelly who plays Jane Doe. Throughout the movie she has no lines and the only thing she gets to do is be a dead body. While this seems like it might be one of the easiest jobs ever, I am one hundred percent sure that this was probably a very difficult part to play as the character is naked the entire time, or in a body bag, and has her eyes open. And yes I do realize that some of the scenes are probably not the actress, but she did a fantastic job.

I'm working on a fantasy novel that someone else wrote, and I am at a loss. I didn't realize there was so much I didn't know about the fantasy genre. I thought I'd look up a few things and voila, a book would be finished and publishable. Yeah, I was wrong.

I know almost nothing about witchcraft, witches, pagans, the entire religion/belief system. I thought that knowing the difference between a good witch and a bad witch, white and black magic, natural and unnatural spells, would be enough. There is so much more to it than that. There are witches who believe in using only what the earth has to offer in spells and protection. There are witches who don't believe in casting spells. There are witches who believe only in the spirit world and the help received from the beyond. There are witches who dabble in death and use sacrifices of animals in their magic. There are witches who only feel safe when they call upon the help of nature during a time of solstice.

Now I have to separate what is truthful and bend and shape it into fantasy without upsetting the real life practitioners out there. Not only do I have to concern myself and update myself on witchcraft, but on the supernatural and alternate worlds.

Of course, I have read novels set in alternative universes and worlds. I mean I read the I, ROBOT series by Isaac Asimov, the NIGHTSIDE series by Simon R. Green and the INFERNAL series by Edward Lee, so I know about other worlds and worlds within worlds. The problem I am having it that this isn't just a world within a world, it's a world of fantasy and magic and trolls, which is not something I am familiar with.

I'd like to say I feel confident that I am awesome enough to do this, but there is always something scary about writing, and when it isn't in the genre you consistently write in it can be even more frightening!

Just kinda had to get this out there. As an author I am full of self doubt and concern over if what I write is interesting.